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Democratic Fund-Raiser Unit Is Curtailing Most Operations
N Y Times ^ | 08/04/2005 | GLEN JUSTICE

Posted on 08/04/2005 2:38:41 PM PDT by Phlap

ACT and the Media Fund were born over dinner conversation at a restaurant on Dupont Circle ... What emerged was a plan to tap large donors using so-called 527 committees that, unlike candidates or political parties, are allowed to collect unlimited contributions.

ACT and the Media Fund raised enough money to alarm Republicans, who initially tried to fight the use of 527 groups through legal challenges. When the Federal Election Commission declined to pass tough regulations, Republicans turned to groups of their own. The largest, Progress for America, raised almost $45 million in a matter of weeks to support Mr. Bush.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 527groups; act; kerrydefeat; mediafund; soros; webofconnections
The moral of this story: Be careful what you wish for.
1 posted on 08/04/2005 2:38:41 PM PDT by Phlap
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To: Phlap

Good news and predictable. The loons of the left (Soros, et al) just continue to burn money in an attempt to install radical socialism in the United States...just keep throwing those green-backs in the fire, you idiots...we are loving every minute of it.

Living proof the radical left is a dying dinosaur.


2 posted on 08/04/2005 2:41:14 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Phlap

3 posted on 08/04/2005 2:42:54 PM PDT by Chester A. Arthur
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To: EagleUSA
 

 

 

Really breaks my heart.

 
 

!

 

4 posted on 08/04/2005 2:44:41 PM PDT by HawaiianGecko (Liberals believe common sense facts are open to debate!)
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To: Phlap

What DID they expect? That we'd sit back and say "oh well, so much for this election", shake hands in a sportsmanlike manner and concede defeat? If so, you must be a Democrat if your peer group is of the single cell variety.


5 posted on 08/04/2005 2:47:36 PM PDT by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
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To: Phlap
ACT and the Media Fund were born over dinner conversation at a restaurant on Dupont Circle...

Yes, "Dupont Circle", the gay debauched neighborhood in DC.

6 posted on 08/04/2005 2:49:18 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: Phlap

HA ha...
7 posted on 08/04/2005 2:56:46 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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